Ripping, Cutting, Stitching: Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global Politics

shine choi; Saara Särmä; Cristina Masters; Marysia Zalewski; Michelle Lee Brown; Swati Parashar

doi:10.5771/9781538171394

Summary

This book presents a collective mediation on writing, methods, violences, and un/becomings in global politics. It combines narratives, fictional stories, academic discussions, passionate unwindings, imagined futures, and more. The editor's intention is to offer a theoretically creative work which engages extensively with the visual and affective to un-discipline knowledge and modes of expression. The book’s point of departure is a conventional academic conference and its peculiar academic concerns (which many readers will only be too familiar with), using this to open up to broader and deeper concerns about everyday-level decisions, realities, and perspectives that feed into and make global politics. It is a polyvocal text that collects traces of thinking, learning, conversing, embodying and ‘finding out’, in an attempt to make visible some of the avalanches of discarded knowing practices. In this sense, this book is a methods book as much as a political/theoretical text that demands we (better) understand or know the worlds we enter, inhabit, to make it quiver otherwise.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-7137-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-7139-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 228
Product Type: Monograph

1. ‘Touch me here’. No access
2. A monstrously queer table of contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. A contributing cast of characters No access
5. A very short list of abbreviations No access
1. 1 how to read this book that is not a book No access
2. 2 frankenstinian encounters: feeling the ways No access
3. 3 on writing No access
4. 4 collective writing/writing collectively No access
5. 5 playground relations No access
6. 6 calling out (via) disjunctures No access
7. 7 what is at stake? No access
1. 8 black cats, the seduction of usefulness and cracks No access
2. 9 perverse love letter No access
3. 10 writing exhaustion—the unbearable weight of white feminism No access
4. 11 composting anger: why I/we refuse your ‘diversity’ and the ‘womanofcolour’ tag No access
5. 12 planet white boys No access
6. 13 on exhaustion and enchantment No access
7. 14 can feminism be a comma? No access
8. 15 exhausted (again) of the normal No access
9. 16 academic friendships and angers (not?) worth holding onto No access
10. 17 on writing and on writing this book No access
1. 18 a shaking . . . No access
2. 19 feminist practices of knowledge formation . . . No access
3. 20 trajectories . . . ? No access
4. 21 imagining other futures . . . No access
5. 22 dreaming of other futures . . . No access
6. 23 Poetics of a handbook—or some suggestions for better practices . . . (for those still in academia . . .) No access
7. 24 be(com)ing undisciplined . . . No access
Postscript No access Pages 209 - 210
Bibliography: People we moved with No access Pages 211 - 216
Index No access Pages 217 - 226
About the Authors No access Pages 227 - 228